Ronald & Tony

The windmill of Pigalle

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Wide sunny Place Pigalle in Paris, Parisian balconies, cafe, the exact supplied Pigalle Metro entrance: green Art Nouveau arch, two glowing red lamps, cream Metropolitain sign and yellow Pigalle nameplate, open stairwell without glass canopy. Ronald and Tony stand left; Karen and Harly walk together several feet right, never touching Ronald. : Caption: Pigalle, Paris. Tony: I thought Paris had towers. Not windmills!

From public pavement, red decorative windmill atop the Moulin Rouge exterior. Ronald and Tony alone foreground, no dancers or advertisements. : Ronald: This one belongs to a cabaret. The Moulin Rouge.

Fictional small print shop nearby. Luc, elderly French printmaker with short grey hair, round spectacles, navy cardigan, white shirt, tan apron, arranging exhibition. Karen and Harly by doorway, Ronald at separate display. : Luc: My exhibition opens at six. And my best picture has the wrong label!

Luc shows old original monochrome ink drawing in simple wooden frame: squat wooden windmill on raised grassy mound with small human figure carrying basket at right. Frame label Moulin Rouge, date 1887 clearly drawn in lower corner. : Luc: An old family drawing. But that isn’t the red mill. Harly: Then which windmill is it?

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Wide sunny Place Pigalle in Paris, Parisian balconies, cafe, the exact supplied Pigalle Metro entrance: green Art Nouveau arch, two glowing red lamps, cream Metropolitain sign and yellow Pigalle nameplate, open stairwell without glass canopy. Ronald and Tony stand left; Karen and Harly walk together several feet right, never touching Ronald.
Caption: Pigalle, Paris. Tony: I thought Paris had towers. Not windmills!

From public pavement, red decorative windmill atop the Moulin Rouge exterior. Ronald and Tony alone foreground, no dancers or advertisements.
Ronald: This one belongs to a cabaret. The Moulin Rouge.

Fictional small print shop nearby. Luc, elderly French printmaker with short grey hair, round spectacles, navy cardigan, white shirt, tan apron, arranging exhibition. Karen and Harly by doorway, Ronald at separate display.
Luc: My exhibition opens at six. And my best picture has the wrong label!

Luc shows old original monochrome ink drawing in simple wooden frame: squat wooden windmill on raised grassy mound with small human figure carrying basket at right. Frame label Moulin Rouge, date 1887 clearly drawn in lower corner.
Luc: An old family drawing. But that isn’t the red mill. Harly: Then which windmill is it?